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from the just-one-more-episode...and-then-the-sun-comes-up dept.
The increasing popularity of global media content like American TV series has been considered as one notable factor associated with binge-watching practices, or continuously consuming media content in a single session.
With the massive global expansion of streaming platforms like Netflix—which had more than 154 million subscribers in over 190 countries in 2019—this practice of marathon viewing of televised content has gradually become a "new ritual" for many viewers.
But not without a price.
Indeed, an American Academy of Sleep Medicine survey in 2019 found 88% of American adults reported a lack of sleep due to binge-watching television and streaming series.
As the use of online streaming services to consume televised content is becoming more common globally, the problem of binge-watching behavior may also become a global phenomenon.
[...] It is inevitable that binge-watching has become a new normal among today's audiences. Yet, given the negative health ramifications associated with it, can we move beyond that? We could try savoring one episode at one time in a slow watching practice.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 14 2020, @07:37AM (12 children)
Here's an idea: why dontcha binge Netflix?
(no seriously, I hear you. It's only because I sorta started to hate programming, that's the main reason I'm wasting so much of my time on S/N).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @07:42AM
Or, instead, Actual Soylentils could submit articles of interest, much as the beloved aristarchus does with some persistance and regularity. Couldn't hurt. We should all take a clue from Phoenix666: The man can sub!
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Friday February 14 2020, @08:34AM (10 children)
Wait, does that mean you used to like or love it?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 14 2020, @08:43AM (9 children)
Unfortunately yes. Graduated physics, no chance in hell to make a living, I made a profession from what was a hobby at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Friday February 14 2020, @02:53PM (2 children)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday February 14 2020, @05:56PM (1 child)
Programming is great if you're writing code you care about. If you're writing software you want to use yourself.
Programming isn't so hot if you're writing code you don't care about.
That's the difference between a hobby and a job.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Friday February 14 2020, @07:43PM
I first wrote about tech dysphoria a decade ago on the green site. I'm seeing more evidence that it's a thing as time goes on.
Dysphoria:
The good ole days when there was so much potential are gone. Unlike, say, sci-fi literature, which comes up with new waves, tech has pretty much stalled out. I don't want an Alexa or Google Home, a Ring doorcam, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or whatever. They will not add to my life. I didn't want a 3D TV, and the only person I know who bought one (a 65") used it for 1 3D DVD. I don't want a smart tv. I don't want Netflix or YouTube. None of these are "need to have " tech, and if I'm bored I want to at least be aware that I'm bored, and not be constantly distracted so that I don't realize it.
And there's the thing - most people are so busy skipping from one boring app to another that they aren't aware of how boring they've become. Ever walk in on a group of friends and just sat there while everyone is scrolling on their phones for the better part of an hour? If I had known that was the main activity, I would have declined the invite.
I put in a few hours volunteering yesterday, and thee other women and I actually talk to each other while we do our work in the warehouse sorting and shelving food donations. It's nice being in an environment where nobody is walking around all day with their faces buried in their phones because the work takes both hands. Kinda forces people to talk with each other.
Tech sucks the life out of life, and that's by design; same as ultra processed junk food leaves you still hungry so you eat more of the crap in a futile attempt to compensate. You end up bloated but not by any means satisfied.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Friday February 14 2020, @03:15PM (5 children)
Yeah, doesn't that suck (for real).
I have a few friends that became scientists. They were shocked and amazed and alarmed and then upset and depressed that their friends in IT were making more money and doing work that wasn't nearly as political (as, perhaps, a government lab) and wasn't nearly as dependent on grants and funding from a singular source (like a government lab) and had a lot more job security and worst of all.. consulting opportunites that simply don't exist without going the rogue chemist route to fame and fortune.
And if one has a degree in ancient Babylonian astronomy*, your best bet is to find an initiative like that Stargate SG-1 thing the government used to have and turn into an intellectual action hero that is depended upon to just be generically smart after its demonstrated that there isn't much use for the higher education of ancient astronomy when deionizing your enemies with stolen alien weaponry.
*Daniel Jackson didn't have a degree in ancient Babylonian astronomy--but it doesn't really matter to much what he has a degree in anyway--he could have ended up writing visual basic for his career and hating his life while seeking to escape by living vicariously through SF action shows depicted as serial dramas on cable television. Not that there is anything wrong with that... I have a boxed set of DVDs of that show that I haven't actually watched past the second disc and haven't seen the show in years and stopped watching and I ended up not keeping track and now I have no idea if the G'ould won or if they (Showtime or SyFy or whoever had it last) just milked the series beyond what was necessary. I imagine things are awesome, like if I was living vicariously through my memories of living vicariously through the TV, and am afraid to look because I expect someone just ruined it in director's cash grab to keep the series alive when it should have been gracefully spun down. And that'd be sad.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @05:34PM
Rogue chemist? Sheeeit, do you know how much rogue physicists get paid?
Actually, nothing. They get paid in food, shelter, and threats to their family. Fuckin' dictators want their big boom booms but never wanna pay a decent henchman wage.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Friday February 14 2020, @05:52PM (3 children)
SG1 is probably my favorite show of all time. Enjoyed it up to the end of Season 10. Had it kept going and kept their style I would still be happily watching it yet. I was afraid it would change after RDA retired more or less, but it stayed interesting to me. Enjoyed Atlantis thoroughly too. Universe wasn't as good, as they went "dark and gritty" which didn't work as well.
YMMV of course.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 14 2020, @08:43PM (2 children)
lol, they never figuered out how to make stargates themselfs ..one would think with a them trips and brains and even "accidental" stranding on a "stargate making" factory ship that the culmination of the series would be that humans would become the new gate builders and seeders.
but no ... funny conciousness teleporting stones to the rescue ... yawn and mostly "wtf?".
(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Friday February 14 2020, @09:52PM
Of course not. The guys that could do that earn their life writing software.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday February 15 2020, @05:19AM
Allow me to hand wave all that away.
Stargate Universe ended on a cliffhanger. There may have been some extra story material in the novels that is considered canon, but the franchise's timeline is effectively over now.
The communication stones appeared in seasons 8 and 9 of SG-1. They allowed Daniel and Vala to communicate with the Ori and accidentally start another war.
Earth has better uses for naquadah than making Stargates, like powering naquadah generators or making alloys for the Daedalus-class battlecruiser hulls. Making more Daedalus-class ships is Earth's top priority towards the end of the series.
They were able to snatch enough unused or stolen Stargates to make a bridge between the Milky Way and Pegasus Galaxy. Getting spare Stargates and getting around is not a problem for them anymore since they have interstellar/intergalactic ships.
They've seen that the Tollan built their own Stargate, so they've known it can be done. They have also likely studied the one time use Stargate built from Earth electronics in s05e03, "Ascension".
They are likely to have a greater understanding of the Stargate in the future. In s02e21, "1969", Cassandra was seen using the instant wormhole device in a future timeline.
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